A Perfect Storm Of My Own Making
By Mitch Berg
If you’ve been reading this blog any length of time, you’ll know that I tend to bite off…well, not “more than I can chew”, but occasionally I’ll tackle some big, involved projects. My “Losing My State Religion” series – on my journey from public school supporter to fierce critic – was nine parts; my “What The Hell Is Wrong With The MNGOP” and “What The Hell Do We Do About The MNGOP” series are almost a dozen parts between ’em. And the big daddy of ’em all, “Twenty Years Ago Today“, is somewhere north of 120 episodes (and four years plus) long.
What makes it interesting is that I do pretty much all of the writing for this blog between 5:30 and 7AM, every morning, along with the odd scraps of time when things settle down in the evening or when there’s nothing going on on the weekend. If I’m trying to do any reporting – calling sources, interviewing people – I squeeze that into breaks during my day job. Until all those Scaifenet rumors come true, and some conservative sugardaddy whisks this blog away to full-time gig status, them’s the breaks.
Anyway – my megalomania has led me into a situation where I’ve got two of those series – “De Godenfar – The Norwegian Mob in America” and “Unintended Consequences, Predictable Responses” – going simultaneously. Both of ’em take some work – “Investigative Fiction” and reporting are different, but neither of ’em grows on trees, time-wise.
And I promised new installments of both today. And it just ain’t gonna happen.
So here’s the schedule for the rest of the week:
- “Unintended Consequences, Predictable Responses” – my series taking apart the Strib’s latest smear job on charter schools – will continue today, Wednesday and Friday.
- “De Godenfar – The Norwegian Mob in America” – will continue Tuesday, Thursday, and on into next week.
My urge to keep everyone informed and to manage expectations is exceeded only by my knowledge that nobody actuall gives a crap. But while you can take a guy out of a “producer” job, you can’t take the producer out of the guy.
That is all.
December 7th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
And speaking of “Twenty Years Ago Today” it’s been quite a while between updates.
(checking archives….. May! What? May was the last “Twenty Years Ago Today” post?)
After reading these for the past several years, I am amazed that soon we will be reviewing 1990. Crikey, that was twenty years ago. I’m getting really old…
It occurs to me, given the vague references to your kids’ ages, that we should be seeing a romance soon.
Or perhaps a romantic comedy??
December 7th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
mitch sex life details= BIG drop in blog traffic plus uncontrollable vomiting.
December 7th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Ben, maybe 2010 will be the year you have a sex life. 😆
December 7th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Ben Says:
December 7th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
“mitch sex life details”
I would expect Mitch to be too much of a gentleman to kiss and tell, or to be guilty of “TMI”
As to his ‘twenty years ago’ series…LOL, Pen and I were actually around in Mitch’s life back then, so the series is doubly enjoyable for the shared nostaligia.
I applaud your writing discipline Mitch and the amount of content you produce; I use it as a good example.
December 7th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
K-Rod, ripping on me is so 2008.
December 8th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Ben, it doesn’t get old, and btw we are laughing with you. 😆